No.1742. VEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO DYAR. 269 



Family CAST XI II Uv 

 Genus CASTNIA Fabrieius. 



CASTNIA HECHTI/E, new species. 



Cray, the fore wing shaded with black at base below cell and in an 

 angular mark at end of cell; a white band, starting near base, runs 

 along above median vein to origin of vein 2, thence fills the interspace 

 2 and 3 and runs obliquely upward toward costa just beyond the 

 cell, terminating at vein 7. Hind wing orange-red, darker shaded 

 in cell and submarginally; a strongly bent black band at end of 

 cell, a submarginal row of pear-shaped spots and the margin nar- 

 rowly black, the black running inward a little on the veins. Expanse, 

 65 mm. 



One male, Tehuacan, Mexican, June, 1909, "on Ilechtia" (It. 

 Miiller). 



Type.— Cat. No. 13038, U.S.N.M. 



Family COSSIRE. 



Genus XYLEUTES Hubner. 



XYLEUTES STRIGIFER, new species. 



White; fore wing densely covered with erect black strigse about 

 as long as the interspaces between the veins, the clots larger and 

 heavier along the costal edge; an agglomeration of black scales on 

 the discal cross vein. Hind wing more faintly and sparsely strigose, 

 but similar. Expanse, 33 to 42 mm. 



Four males, Orizaba, Mexico, June, 1909 (R. Miiller); Santa Cruz, 

 Mexico (H. Schwarz). 



Type.— Cat, No. 13039, U.S.N.M. 



The specimens resemble Herrich-Schaeffer's figure of Zeuzera can- 

 adensis without the dark shadings and with the discal mark added. 

 The hind wings also are more strigose. 



Genus ZEUZERA Latreille. 



ZEUZERA RAMUSCULA Dyar. 



Zeuzera ramuscula Dyar, Sci. Bull., Brooklyn [nst., vol. I. pt. 8, L906, p. s 



A large specimen is before me, the markings smooth and powdery, 

 but the same species, I believe. Iguala, State of Guerrero, Mexico, 

 June, 1906 (W. Schaus). The species was described from Browns- 

 ville, Texas. 



